It has taken me a while to get round to blogging this. Last week I took the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off to avoid the Great Yorkshire Show traffic jams in Harrogate, which would have added several hours to my travelling time to work (which is already too long).
I had planned to take the children to Eureka (”The Museum for Children is the first and foremost hands-on children’s museum in the UK and is designed especially for 0 - 11 year olds.”) on Tuesday but instead spent the day taking my car in to Dixons to be what they call repaired, but everyone else would call being ignored for a week in their car park (I was promised it back today, but hey, I had been promised it back last Wednesday). So the Eureka trip was postponed to Thursday.
I hadn’t been to Eureka before but Big and Small had already been with Jax, long enough ago to have forgotten about it. It is excellent and I can commend it to anyone else within day trip range with appropriately aged children. The exhibits are nicely thought out, a lot are a bit Science Museumy, I thought that some were just a little odd, but then I am not the target audience. Anyway, the small people loved it.
There was an added little something which set everyone’s day off, in the shape of the presence of Big and Small’s big sister, Lily, who they hadn’t ever met before. So this really was a little bit special. We spent about four hours at Eureka and then pottered off to a pub with a play barn for lunch, the children ate a little and ran around a lot, and Lily and I chatted and watched them.
So, a very lovely day all round.
Low point was lending Big my camera and discovering that she has a much better eye than I have. The pictures with this post are ones she took, with the obvious exception, of course, of this last, in which she appears.
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Good blog.
Blimey, she is a rather beautiful big girl. (Yes yes, still avoiding working)
Emma loves using the camera too. We figure that the easiest way to teach them how to use it is let them take as many pictures as they like. Sooner or later, they will develop a sense of what makes a good picture and what doesn’t.
Fabulous pics - Big obviously has quite a talent there
Oh, that must have been lovely for you to have all three together, bit special indeed
And she really is gorgeous!
Big certainly does have a good eye for a photo. OH and I spent ages one evening taking a beautiful sunset, with our two expensive digital cameras. Small person comes along wit her cheapo (at the time) 1mg pixel jobbie, takes the sunset without any thought whatsoever and it is far better than any of the ones we took! OH was most dischuffed
lovely pictures by big.
I love eureka something else i miss about yorkshire!
nice to have all 3 together.
Looks like a great day, Eureka sounds fab. Lily is indeed beautiful, she looks a lot like you Tim.
Nice photos Big.
Lovely. How very special for them. I have a bigger brother that I have never met and it breaks my heart. I’m not even supposed to know about him.
She really is beautiful- great photo.
Love that top photo of small! he is obviously up to something!
Ros, that is sad, I do hope that you will get to see him one day.
bit late here but lovely to read about that day, Tim. Lily looks beautiful.